Osamu Shimomura
| 下村 脩 Shimomura Osamu |
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| Born |
August 27, 1928 Kyoto, Japan |
| Nationality | Japan |
| Institutions |
Princeton University Boston University School of Medicine Marine Biological Laboratory |
| Alma mater |
Nagasaki University Nagoya University |
| Notable awards |
Asahi Prize (2006) Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2008) Golden Goose Award (2012) |
Osamu Shimomura (下村 脩 Shimomura Osamu?, born August 27, 1928) is a Japaneseorganic chemist and marine biologist, and Professor Emeritus at Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and Boston University School of Medicine. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2008 for the discovery and development of green fluorescent protein (GFP) with two American scientists: Martin Chalfie of Columbia University and Roger Tsien of the University of California-San Diego.
Born in Fukuchiyama, Kyoto in 1928, Shimomura was brought up in Manchukuo (Manchuria, China) and Osaka, Japan while his father served as an officer in the Imperial Japanese Army. Later, his family moved to Isahaya, Nagasaki, 25 km from the epicenter of the August 1945 atomic bombing of the city. He recalls hearing, as a 16-year-old boy, the bomber plane before the atom bomb exploded. The explosion flash blinded Shimomura for about thirty seconds, and he was later drenched by the "black rain" bomb fallout. He overcame great odds in the following 11 years to earn an education and achieve academic success.
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